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Perhaps you and your spouse have thought about adoption or foster care for years. Maybe it's a brand new thought but it keeps coming up everywhere, seemingly out of the blue. Your church might have recently spotlighted the orphan crisis and uncomfortable thoughts keep needling their way into your mind. Suddenly it seems that there are billboards about foster care and adoption everywhere you go, adoptive families who keep crossing paths with your life, common threads in conversation, in radio programming, in blog posts. You hear the phrase, "Not everyone is called to adopt and foster," and you heave a sigh of relief. Perhaps God is calling to to be a support family, to intercede for orphans in prayer, to raise awareness. Or perhaps, perhaps , God is nudging your heart that He is leading your family to step into the hard places of foster care and adoption, and you're running scared. My husband NP and I were those people running scared for a long time. And...